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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Agustín Wednesday

Although
it is Ash Wednesday, that’s probably
not ash but a bit of dirt on the forehead of soccer player Agustín Lucas, of
Uruguay, also a poet, up today in Spanish and English in a new translation feature at Escape Into Life. I needed some outdoor
sport, triumph, and a tattoo on this cold March day, on which flurries have
resumed. But my white geranium has also resumed blooming, in its rusty blue
watering can of an indoor pot, and my heirloom two-toned (purple & magenta)
Martha Washington geranium is also about to bloom, thinking spring is surely
coming. We’ll see.

Thanks
to translator Jesse Lee Kercheval, in Uruguay now, as I understand it, in
connection with a new anthology or Uruguayan poets, and to Jackie K. White, EIL’s
new Translation Editor. (More about her next
Wednesday!)

My
parents are home from balmier days in Florida, just in time for a little more
of the groundhog’s predicted winter. And our local good news is that my husband’s
7th graders advanced in their regional volleyball tournament! In a
gym blessedly warmer than the home gym—well, a blessing for the spectators,
anyway! Maybe the girls like it cool!

About Me

"You must change your life," said Rilke. So that's what I keep doing. I've been an encyclopedia editor, a poetry editor, an actor and director, a library clerk, and an assistant professor of English. Now I'm a freelancer, work part time in a library, blog "eight days a week," study the random, tend perennials, and listen to birdsong.